Foy Family History
Foy Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Fahey.Irish: variant of
Fee.French: nickname, from Old French foi ‘faith’
(Latin fides), either for a pious person or for someone who
frequently used this term in oaths.French: from the medieval
female personal name Foy, which is from foi ‘faith’, as
above.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Foy
Name Distribution of Foy Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Foy families
 439 - 875  147 - 438 |
 1 - 146  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Foy families
|
88 - 173 30 - 87 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Foy census records
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Foy Family Origin
Foy Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Foy Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Foy Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Foy census records
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Military Service by Foy
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